On Tue, Jun 01 2010, Andy Wingo wrote: > Hello list, > > It would be really great if someone could get to the bottom of our > readline support and fix a couple things. > > * Tab-completion: Works great for functions, not so much for arguments? > > If at the repl you type `(string-' and press tab, you get a list of > symbols bound in the current module that start with string-. Of > course it would be nice to restrict these to procedures, but hey. But > if you type `(string-ref fo' and press TAB, you get nothing, not even > if `foo' is bound. Bummer, no? It's been this way for at least 10 > years but I know that readline can do the right thing. Please fix?
I think the attached 1-character patch fixes argument completion. Offering only callable symbols when completing on the first position is something i hadn't thought of for geiser: i'm probably implementing it there first and will try to backport the implementation to guile. > > * History: Expression-oriented, please! > > It would be great if going back in the history cycled through entire > expressions, not line-by-line. Again I know that readline can do > this. Please fix? :) I'll try to find the time for that too. In the meantime, just use geiser's REPL :) Cheers, jao -- A lot of people have my books on their bookshelves. That's the problem, they need to read them. -- Don Knuth
diff --git a/guile-readline/readline.c b/guile-readline/readline.c index 2d3617d..ed524da 100644 --- a/guile-readline/readline.c +++ b/guile-readline/readline.c @@ -554,7 +554,7 @@ scm_init_readline () #else rl_completion_entry_function = (Function*) completion_function; #endif - rl_basic_word_break_characters = "\t\n\"'`;()"; + rl_basic_word_break_characters = " \t\n\"'`;()"; rl_readline_name = "Guile"; reentry_barrier_mutex = scm_make_mutex ();
